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The Americans for Gun Safety Foundation is an organization which claims to 1) promote gun safety training and 2) advocate "responsible gun laws".[1] The political issues surrounding guns is an especially contentious topic in the United States. ...
This article concerns the National Rifle Association of the USA. For the UK organisation, see National Rifle Association, UK The National Rifle Association, or NRA, is a 501(c)(4) group for the protection of gun rights in the United States. ...
Gun Owners of America is the second largest gun rights organization in America. ...
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership or JPFO is a group dedicated to the preservation of gun rights in the United States. ...
The Pink Pistols are a gay gun rights organization in the United States. ...
Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. ...
The Brady Campaign or Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence or The Brady Campaign united with the Million Mom March was founded in 1974 as the National Coalition to Ban Handguns and was named Handgun Control, Inc. ...
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence in the United States is a not-for-profit organization headed by James Brady, former U.S. White House Press Secretary to President Ronald W. Reagan. ...
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence or CSGV is a non-partisan group of 45 organizations and 100,000 individual members founded in 1974 that seeks to ban handguns and assault weapons in the United States. ...
The Americans for Gun Safety Foundation is a project of the Tides Center, and a Section 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Their website states that the organization "seeks to educate Americans on existing gun laws and new policy options for reducing access to guns by criminals and children and to promote responsible gun ownership. The AGS Foundation supports the rights of individuals to own firearms." The Tides Center, which is administratively linked to but separate from the Tides Foundation is an institution that handles financial donations for progressive groups like the Institute for Global Communications. ...
A nonprofit organization (sometimes abbreviated to not-for-profit, non-profit or NPO) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ...
The AGS Foundation has done studies of background checks at gun shows and the way states develop mental health records and keep track of those prohibited from purchasing a gun because of mental illness. A background check is a process in which the specifics of an individuals past are revealed for the purposes of employment, obtaining access to classified information, or obtaining restricted items. ...
A gun show is a form of exhibition or gathering where guns, gun parts and literature, as well as knives and miscellaneous collectables are displayed, bought, sold (subject to regulations) and discussed. ...
Due to the organization being established by Andrew McKelvey (the founder of Monster.com), a former member of the board of directors of Handgun Control, Inc., gun rights activists frequently cite that AGS has appearances and affiliations of that of an anti-gun organization. Monster. ...
The Brady Campaign or Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence or The Brady Campaign united with the Million Mom March was founded in 1974 as the National Coalition to Ban Handguns and was named Handgun Control, Inc. ...
The AGS Foundation webpage has a link to their "advocacy organization" called AGS.
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Gun politics in the United States Constitutional issues The private ownership of guns is an especially contentious political topic in the United States, where the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: The meaning of this text remains fiercely debated, with some saying that the amendment only refers to...
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